We built this website because we want to open a doorway for writers to go deep into the art and craft of writing. Writing today, in America, is about images. It is about images and action. We live in a post-literate world but it’s a world that lives for and consumes...

This diagram is being revised. Update indefinite. This diagram based on Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep plots a technique called Mark the Killer. Look at those teeth at the opening and again at the ending. In Silence of the Lambs, Harris makes Lecter a polydactyl...

This diagram is being revised. Update indefinite. When we taught in the screenwriting course at the UW, Jack and I discovered core story as a technique for separating the plot from subplots, and subplots from each other. To put these separations into a picture, we...